GOP censored Scott response to Thrasher

Florida Republican Chairman John Thrasher sent a message to party faithful titled "Rick Scott" on Sunday night, blasting him (again) for invoking the Jim Greer scandal in the campaign. (See his message below.)

Scott's
camp sought to respond, but the party refused to send the message,
which says "denying the facts to paint a better picture of Bill McCollum is the wrong way to do it." (Read the whole thing here.)

Party spokeswoman Katie Betta
explained the party routinely sends campaign emails to its list. But it
also reserves the right to reject those "that contain personal or
otherwise inappropriate attacks towards other Republicans." As for the
email from Thrasher, which contained some choice words, Betta said the
chairman can send what he wants.

It's the not first cries of bias from Scott supporters. (See: in-kind contributions, RGA attack, etc.)

And
Thrasher's charade of neutrality is all but gone. On Sunday, McCollum
thanked Thrasher for his help: "John Thrasher is officially neutral,
but, you know, I know where John's heart is."

Here is Thrasher's email to Republicans about Scott:

Fellow Republicans,

Over
the last several weeks and in an escalated manner this weekend, Rick
Scott has orchestrated a multifaceted campaign of misinformation in an
effort to mislead Florida voters and confuse the facts surrounding the
arrest and indictment of Jim Greer as well as the Party’s financial
situation and preparedness to support our candidates as we move towards
the November election.

The ads placed in newspapers
this weekend, television advertisements and the stream of mail sent to
voters by Mr. Scott alleging that Attorney General Bill McCollum acted
inappropriately throughout the investigation, arrest and indictment of
Jim Greer are untrue. Politifact has twice written that Mr. Scott's
attacks on this issue are false and that their continued use appears to
be an attempt at diverting attention from Mr. Scott's past legal issues.

As
I have stated before, Attorney General McCollum, Speaker-Designate
Cannon, Senate President -Designate Haridopolos and I stood up to
Governor Crist and worked to remove Jim Greer as Chairman because of his
mismanagement of the Party. When evidence of the alleged criminal
wrongdoing Jim Greer has now been indicted for was presented to us,
Attorney General McCollum acted swiftly to refer our findings to the
proper authorities. Mr. Scott’s repeated attacks come straight from Jim
Greer and the Florida Democrats’ talking points and seek to diminish and
destroy the credibility of the Party we have worked so hard to rebuild
following the Crist/Greer era.

Additionally, Mr.
Scott’s false rhetoric about the state of the Party’s finances and our
ability to support our candidates demonstrates a disturbing lack of
understanding of federal and state election law. Despite having to pay
down a significant amount of federal debt inherited from the previous
administration, the Party has nearly half a million in the bank to help
towards our get out the vote effort. We plan to add a significant amount
to that during our upcoming Victory Dinner. With more than 20 victory
offices open, our field staff numbers will rival what we have had in
presidential years and with the help of our friends at the RNC, NRSC and
NRCC voter contact will be at levels we in Florida are used to and
more. Absentee and early vote numbers currently on the books indicate
that our voters are active and engaged in this election, and that
momentum will carry over into the general election in November.

Had Mr. Scott chosen to join every other statewide candidate in our efforts to fundraise for the Florida
Victory 2010 effort, a strategic victory plan the McCollum Campaign has
been involved with for nearly a year, he would be better educated as to
the Party’s position headed into November and have a better
understanding of specific resources the RPOF is able to provide various
state and federal candidates. Instead, he’s chosen to criticize the
Party with naive statements that are completely void of fact and reflect
nothing more than his own failure to understand federal and state
election law.

I remain hopeful that in the remaining
days of this primary campaign, Rick Scott will begin to lay out a
positive message for why he is running for the Republican nomination to
be our next Governor, instead of continuing to release false statements
regarding fellow Republicans and our Party.